We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Product Owner to join the Interweave Digital team and help shape the future of our digital services. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering solutions that support clinicians, partners and patients, ensuring our products are practical, effective and focused on real user need s.
You will work in a collaborative environment alongside technical teams, designers and healthcare professionals, helping guide the direction of digital products that make a meaningful impact across the health and care system.
You will be responsible for defining, prioritising, and delivering digital solutions that align with organisational goals and user needs. Acting as the bridge between stakeholders and development teams, they translate requirements into actionable tasks, ensuring that software products evolve in a way that maximises value and efficiency. Using Agile methodologies, oversee the product backlog, facilitate collaboration across teams, and drive continuous improvement.
The role requires a strong understanding of digital service delivery, stakeholder engagement, and iterative development to ensure effective and user‑centred solutions.
Please note: the use of generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT or Copilot) in your application is only permitted if the content accurately reflects your own experience and skills. Excessive reliance on AI, or material lacking clear individual input, may result in your application being rejected
Main duties of the job
* Define and prioritise the product backlog, ensuring that all development aligns with stakeholder needs, user expectations, and organisational objectives.
* Work closely with the user researcher, UX designers, and clinicians to prototype and validate solutions before development, ensuring a strong focus on user‑centred design.
* Champion user‑centred design principles within the team, ensuring that product decisions are driven by research, feedback, and real‑world user needs.
* Engage with users and partners to review new ideas and concepts, validating their feasibility before inclusion in the roadmap. This involves working in a lean, iterative manner with researchers and users to prototype, test, and refine solutions.
* Facilitate Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews) to ensure effective collaboration between teams and stakeholders.
* Drive continuous improvement in the development and delivery process, promoting efficiency, innovation, and limiting effort, cost and inefficiencies.
About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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Job responsibilities
For further information regarding this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications, Education and Training
* Degree or equivalent experience in relevant field (e.g. health service management, change management, workforce redesign, digital product management, business analysis or software development).
* Professional certification in Agile methodologies (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner/Manager).
* Knowledge of FHIR/HL7
* Further training in user experience (UX) or human‑centred design.
Knowledge and Experience
* Knowledge of health service management, including change management and workforce re‑design, acquired through training and experience to Masters' level equivalent.
* Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
* Strong knowledge of user centred design principles
* Strong knowledge of lean development practices
* Experience in NHS digital services or health informatics.
* Familiarity with FHIR and interoperability standards.
* Previous experience in stakeholder engagement within a healthcare or public sector setting.
Skills, Competencies and Personal Qualities
* Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to engage diverse stakeholder groups.
* Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, able to assess complex requirements and prioritise effectively.
* Ability to lead Agile teams, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.
* High degree of self‑motivation and ability to work independently.
* Experience using AHA!, Jira, Confluence, or similar Agile project management tools.
* Knowledge of NHS digital strategy and interoperability frameworks.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Full‑time,Flexible working,Home or remote working
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